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How can I make backspace key delet highlighted text? Also, when typing over
highlighted text nothing happens, the highlighted text remains. My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers. Please help. |
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In Tools Options Edit, check the option "Typing replaces
selection". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:21:01 -0700, cacrafty wrote: How can I make backspace key delet highlighted text? Also, when typing over highlighted text nothing happens, the highlighted text remains. My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers. Please help. |
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Take a look at ToolsOptionsGeneral, remove the checks for the items
referring to WordPerfect. HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 7/4/06 7:21 PM, in article , "cacrafty" wrote: How can I make backspace key delet highlighted text? Also, when typing over highlighted text nothing happens, the highlighted text remains. My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers. Please help. |
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Thaank you, Jay and CyberTaz. I am excited about this function working
again. I should have asked long ago. Regards, cacrafty "Jay Freedman" wrote: In Tools Options Edit, check the option "Typing replaces selection". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:21:01 -0700, cacrafty wrote: How can I make backspace key delet highlighted text? Also, when typing over highlighted text nothing happens, the highlighted text remains. My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers. Please help. |
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